Lessons from an Incognito Project Manager
I recently changed hats from project team-builder to project team member. As the e-learning course developer on the team, it […]
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Wrap Up
I believe that most people in the computer-using community (which now is just about everybody in the developed nations) want to do the right thing, and can do the right thing. They just need to know what the right things are, and how to do them.
Administrative Security Controls
Administrative controls are perhaps most important, because they most directly impact your people. On the one hand, they are the simplest, since all it takes is education. On the other hand, education about the hazards of smoking or the possibility that having sex causes pregnancy hasn’t done much to change behaviors in those realms. Well, rather than throw up our hands and give up, let’s tackle administrative controls anyhow…
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Technical Security Controls
There is a lot to talk about with regard to technical security controls, aka the “sexy stuff” like firewalls and IDS. So rather than bore you with technobabble (in Scrappy Information Security, I start with packets, headers, ports & MACs as a way of introducing how the Internet works), I will instead focus on an explanation of encryption.
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Physical Security Controls
I think most of us “get” physical security. Still, a few basic (and a few not-so-basic) physical security controls worth discussing include…
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InfoSec 101
When teaching “InfoSec 101,” I reflect back on my early career as a reporter, and focus on answering the standard questions: who, what, why, where, when, and how. Since this is a Scrappy Book, let’s throw caution to the wind and take them out of order…
Scrappy Information Security
We’re adults, and we like to know “why.” I would like to share some of the whys of information security, so that you can understand why the infosec guys can be so darned stubborn.
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Change Leadership: What to Be and What to Do
To wrap-up this week on being a change leader, here’s my short list of what to be and what to
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Change Leadership takes one step after the other
There’s one significant characteristic of a leader that I have not mentioned: Be a model for those behaviors and traits
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Change Leadership and Moving through the Fog…
So far I’ve covered the concepts that change leadership requires a vision and trust: Vision to provide direction Trust so
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Change Leadership and Trust
Yesterday I covered 3 points for change leadership and project management: 1. You implement change everyday in your role as
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